The Trump administration's war of words with Iran is straight from its North Korea playbook | Analysis by j_berlingerCNN
If the current war of words between Iran and the United States has strange echoes of 2017, it's because the same US strategy is at work.
The Trump administration is using its North Korea playbook on Iran: Use a"maximum pressure" campaign -- the same nomenclature was used for Tehran and Pyongyang -- to box the adversary into a corner, then try to negotiate. Respond to a threat by escalating your own threat. Then negotiate to alleviate tensions and claim a win.
— Donald J. Trump May 19, 2019 Van Jackson, a former official in the Defense Department under the Obama administration and author of"On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the threat of Nuclear War," told CNN that Trump"took a gamble aiming big threats at North Korea, he paid no price for that so far, and so now he thinks he's a good gambler."Read More"Trump has no idea that the North Korean nuclear crisis was the closest America came to nuclear war since 1962.
— Vipin Narang May 19, 2019 Rhetorical whiplashOn camera, Trump took a much less combative tone in an interview with Fox News that aired Sunday."I just don't want them to have nuclear weapons, and they can't be threatening us," Trump said of Iran.
Trump tries to tamp down war rhetoric with Iran 04:22Answering the same question, Trump also pointed to North Korea as a diplomatic win."When I went to North Korea, there were nuclear tests all the time, there were missiles going up all the time, we had a very rough time and then we got along. We'll see what happens right now," Trump said.
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